skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am all in on Apple, to be clear. Mac Pros, multiple MBPs, Studio, Pro Display XDR, multiple Watches, phones, iPad Pro.

My experiences (multiple) with Genius Bar have been decidedly more "meh" to outright frustrating, versus "luxury", oftentimes where I know more than the Genius.

Logic Board issues where on a brand new macOS install I could reproducibly cause a kernel panic around graphics hardware. There was an open recall (finally, after waiting MONTHS) on this. It covered my Mac. But because it passed their diagnostic tool, they would only offer to replace the board on a time and materials basis.

I had a screen delamination issue. "It's not that bad - you can't see it when the screen is on, and you have to look for it". Huh. Great "luxury" experience.

And then the multiple "we are going to price this so outrageously, and use that as an excuse to try to upsell". Like the MBA that wouldn't charge due to a circuit issue. Battery fine, healthy. Laptop, fine, healthy, on AC. Just couldn't deliver current to the battery. Me, thinking sure, $300ish maybe with a little effort.

"That's going to be $899 to repair. That's only $100 less than a new MBA, maybe we should take a look at some of the new models?" Uh, no. I'm not paying $900 for a laptop that spends 99% (well, 100% now) of its life on AC power.
I understand electrical and plumbing, but why does the HVAC need to be bigger/smaller?
> Also if a senior person can't in 30/45 min of talking with someone figure out the general experience level then the problem is them, really.

Or it's not their call, theirs is just to work with them after.
I'm in a similar boat. I have to use a 3rd party component library written in web components for our react app (esri/calcite-components) and it's a huge pain because
* You can't override styles except what is exposed through css variables
* They often encapsulate some internal logic which I can't control from React (tbh this could happen with a React library too)
Throw (slowly, compared to c) a black hole (BH) through a Bonnor beam (BB). Throw a white hole (WH) through a Bonnor beam. Ignore technical difficulties in superimposing the exact solutions for the moment. The breaking of the axial/spherical symmetries is deliberate.

Qualitatively what happens, in your view, when the WH touches the beam? Is it just the time reversed picture of the BH intercepting the BB? There's a part of the first spacetime where some of the light is trapped in the BH as it flies off to infinity after its encounter with the beam. Is there a part of the second spacetime in which some of the light is trapped in the WH? If so, where is it if the initial conditions are a Bonnor beam at large spacelike separation from the white hole? Does the WH cut a gap into the beam?

Alternatively, take two widely separated BHs. Grind out the Raychaudhuri equation, bearing in mind the focusing theorem. Now take two widely separated WHs. What's different? How does a circular orbit of two WHs evolve? Outgoing GWs tend to circularize elliptical binary BH orbits. Can a circular binary WH orbit decircularize? How? ("Incoming GWs from initial conditions" is not very satisfying).

The problem I think is confusing the reversal of the entire BH spacetime with a WH stitched into an ordinary Minkowski in the asymptotic limit, or into a cosmology. (Bonnor is essesntially the latter). More broadly, a WH should be able to live with future-directed null geodesics.

Of course, I could only agree with a response like, "well such a WH is almost certainly unphysical", but maybe we could ignore that in order to think about what happens when a plane wave hits a WH.
Even if 'no animals were harmed' in the making, as in they pulled some filming tricks... it's still a disturbing message. They once understood 'marketing is about values' // what a sad value they proclaimed today, destroy the essence for our entertainment.
Yes? I did it many, many times as a kid, it is not that difficult.
> But translating this knowledge into the clinic will be challenging.

> Don’t expect an elixir of youth any time soon, says Florian — by definition, ageing research takes a long time. “But there is such great potential for translation.”

how long before we might see such treatment in humans?

> here's how

I read the article, I have not read the papers linked, but from just the article, the only applicable "how" listed was

> up if you smoke and down if you exercise.
some of us have some logical dyslexia, so when I see a tuple of numerics, even if you say (this is the row, this is the column, this is the table), when I'm manipulating references, or finding a tuple in the dark, I easily mix up the order of the bits, because lets face it, it's arbitrary.

So, while your logic makes sense, it voids humanity in a rather stark way which I suppose is fine, but it's not like I'm incapable of programming. I just have to be careful about how I name variables and use keywords in python more often than args.
Public intoxication would seem to be the only example of that though.

Can you think of any other?
> "due to customer lock-in"

Their words or your words?
Earlier than that; I wanted to say EditPad but that's not it. I found it; EtherPad in 2008 is the one I was thinking of, but the history of collaborative editing apparently goes back to Doug Englebart's Mother of All Demos in 1968:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor...
Email address specs turn out to be rather complicated.

I really wish people wouldn't code their own checks rather than use already existing standards. Some languages like Java even include proper checks in their standard library: https://java.net/projects/javamail

Several jobs back I had no end of arguments with some Java devs about not writing their own checks, that kept routinely failing on legitimate addresses.
how does this work? via headless browser?
afaik LI has no public API
Maybe your tool breaks their TOS?
In HK, it probably works because you usually have lots of competing businesses in the same place.
1 fork per 4 seconds? That's so inefficient. Just observing Geiger counter will fork the universe faster than article's very inefficient implementation.
I would rather take web components than deal with react any day of the week. Never seen a good react implementation.

The only issue with web components is shadow dom makes styling a pain so you need to work without the shadow dom and implement slots yourself.
Discharge of scrubber to the Baltic Sea responsible for millions $
Not OP, but if you just want to experiment and you have a cast iron frying pan, there are instructions out there on how to roast beans with a frying pan. I'll leave the instruction search as an exercise for the reader ('cuz I don't know which ones I used), but basically just keep those beans stirred until they start to pop like popcorn, and you're done. CAUTION: this will make a ton of smoke, as in, if you have a way to do this outside then do it. It's what keeps me from making a habit of it.

That said, much like home-brew beer: best beans I've ever had (granted, I'm no snob). Just writing this makes me want to order a bag of unroasted beans off Amazon and give it another whirl.

Or go the easy route and just order what sibling comment recommends. :-)
Huh, I don’t recall reading this paper before, but it’s terrific! I hadn’t previously seen it laid out as clearly as this, but yes, “faking” the design doc is exactly what happens in practice, and it’s a good thing! Since we want design docs that are useful now, not just obsolete historical artifacts.
> That must mean nobody at the company is technical "at all" either then, if you are getting people that far along without having any clue if they even write code at all.

Lots of people skate by in technical roles by barely doing anything technical. Lots of people also overinflate their achievements in resumes and conversations aka lying. How is non technical recruiter supposed to evaluate their coding chops?

> People who say all their work is hidden under NDA or they're new grads and haven't done anything yet - sorry, if there's nothing to view online I just wouldn't qualify you to interview.

Lol, great method! I have a better one - just hire acm winners. No need to test them
I didn't go for the cheapest option: I'm typing this on a laptop that I bought a few months ago for $1200. It has an aluminum case, 32GB RAM, an AMD Ryzen CPU that benchmarks similar to the M3, and 1TB SSD. I can open it up and replace parts with ease.

The equivalent from Apple would currently run me $3200. If I'm willing to compromise to 24GB of RAM I can get one for $2200.

What makes an Apple device a luxury item isn't that it's more expensive, it's that no matter what specs you pick it will always be much more expensive than equivalent specs from a non-luxury provider. The things that Apple provides are not the headline stats that matter for a tool-user, they're luxury properties that don't actually matter to most people.

Note that there's nothing wrong with buying a luxury item! It's entirely unsurprising that most people on HN looking at the latest M4 chip prefer luxury computers, and that's fine!
The opposite delays is an interesting touch. Basically steering the "power alley / valleys" (which of course are a gradient of lobes whose actual positions vary by frequency, but when you're in a 60-80Hz valley, you're in a bad spot) of each LF instrument so that instead of being uniform, the one with kick is angled a little left while the one with bass is angled a little right, so any given member of the audience finding themselves in a valley for one is in the alley of the other. And then the chaotic smearing from EQ tweaks makes the valleys even less stark. Hmm! Definitely one of those "it's good if it works" type things, I suppose. #808
do they pay more, or are they charged more? there is a difference
I’ve been hoping for the same thing since I bought my M1 iPad just before WWDC.

As much as I’d like the OLED screen and lighter weight, I don’t have any compelling argument to buy a new one.
Yes I have noticed the dentist trying to x-ray my kids every six months. The dentist office near my university would basically point blank tell the students to get the works every visit because "aren't you covered by your student plan?". Yes I am a anti dentite
> so we'll get double the battery life

This is an absurd interpretation. Nobody hears that and says "they made the screen use half the energy".
Your "solution" is just another coding interview.

A typical engineer doesn't begin their day thinking "I should implement a streaming algorithm" out of nowhere (and if they do, they can always seek reference). They analyze a (typically underspecified) problem, figure out the constraints, and then start thinking about a solution. Note that both processes, analysis and solution, can take hours, days, weeks or months!

Coding interviews have everything backwards by providing synthetic solutions to mostly out-of-context problems.

For example, interviewers could:

- Share some portion of a codebase with the candidate prior to the interview

- Go over the code with the candidate

That's it. You will know really fast who's senior and who's never wrote software. It can't be faked. And it can be adapted to mostly any positions (backend, frontend, devops, architecture, whatever).
the intention is to lock in orgs to their cloud services. This is a value-add. They really know that Excel, Word are "feature complete" and the only way they're going to make money on it is by harvesting and locking in the users.
so having done interviews, just because the latter may be more present, does not mean the hordes of people just throwing a spaghetti made-up-resume at the wall have gone away. our industry has a great strength in that you don't need official credentialing to show that you can do something. at the same time, it is hard to verify what people are saying in their resumes, they might be lying in the worst case but sometimes they legitimately think they are at the level they are interviewing for. it was bad before the interest rate hikes, i cannot imagine what the situation is like now that hiring has significantly slowed and a lot more people are fighting for fewer jobs.

i did interviews for senior engineer and had people fail to find the second biggest number in a list, in a programming language of their own choosing. it had a depressingly high failure rate.
but you're using a vpn at the coffee shop for privacy reasons, and the compromised dhcp server will allow a malicious actor to read all of your packets anyway
Yes. People usually are surprised that NVIDIA is using it : https://www.adacore.com/nvidia

Ada is assumed to be dead by most US-centric programmers, but is alive and used outside the US. Seems most of the action these days in Ada-land is in Europe.
China's Xi gets red-carpet welcome in Serbia
circular argument since the 2 party system will never implement it
WizardCoder, StarCoder, CodeLlama?
Very surprised to see archlinux.org on there. Would’ve thought they would know better about security.
> Those other companies have no flipping hardware to run it "on edge", in a "generic" way, which is the goal

Maybe? This is why I responded to:

> It's everyone's goal. Apple is actively achieving that goal

This is is the issue I found disagreeable. Other organizations and individual people are achieving that goal too. Google says GPT-Nano is going to device, and if the benchmarks are to be believed, if it runs at that level, their work so far is also actively achieving that goal. Meta has released multiple distilled models that people have already proven to run inference at the device level. It cannot be argued that meta is not actively achieving that goal either. They don't have to release the hardware because they went a different route. I applaud Apple for the M chips. They are super cool. People are still working on using them so Apple can realize that goal too.

So when you go to the statement that started this

> Apple's AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices

Multiple orgs also share this. And I can't say that one particular org is super ahead of the others. And I can't elevate apple in that race because it is not clear that they are truly privacy-focused or that they will keep APIs open.

> You cannot effectively do this on competitor hardware, with good performance, from "budget" to "Pro" lineup, which is a requirement of the goal

Why do you say you cannot do this with good performance? How many tokens do you want for a device? Is 30T/s enough? You can do that on laptops running small mixtral.

> What hardware are they running it on? Are they taking advantage of Apple (or other) hardware in their strategy?

I don't know. I have nothing indicating necessarily apple or nvidia or otherwise. Do you?

> [Regarding the rest]

Sure, my point is that they definitely have an intent for bespoke models. And why I raised the point that not all computation will be feasible on edge for the time being. My point with what raised this particular line of inquiry is whether a pure edge experience truly enables the best user experience. And also why I raised the point about Apple's track record of open APIs. Which is why "actively achieving" is something that I put doubt on. And I also cast doubt on apple being privacy focused. Just emphasize tying it back to the reason I even commented.
Nintendo made more profit during the Switch-era than they did from the Famicom through the Wii U.

https://twitter.com/pierre485_/status/1787885439350681943
Gentle vertical and horizontal deflections do not put undue wear on a car. This is why it is okay for roads to have things like turns. When cars go around roundabouts, through residential chicanes, or over properly designed speed humps at reasonable speeds, it does not put any more wear on a car than normal road features.
some of the many links in that article

https://apnews.com/article/google-chrome-privacy-lawsuit-set...
https://apnews.com/article/private-incognito-browsing-explai...
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/09/07/facebook-telegram-a...
https://epic.org/issues/consumer-privacy/data-brokers/
https://lithub.com/surveillance-capitalism-and-the-internet-...
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/machine-learni...
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-profe...
https://proton.me/blog/privacy-washing-2023
https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-surveillance-c...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-25/healthengine-sharing-...
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/04/addressing-equity-ethics...
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/sean-parker-unloads-on-face...
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/clos...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/period-tracker-...
https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/a-majority-of...
https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Data-Matters/Data-is-not...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17216783/1096/brown-v-g...
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/...
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/...
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/...

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-snooze-you-lose-insur...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-crack-down-us-data-....
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-teach-comp...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overl...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/robot-be-good/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/what-is-machine-lea...
https://www.stitchdata.com/resources/predictive-analytics/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/05/1089449/nobody-k...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-p...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zubof...
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17053758/phone-addictive-desig...
Nixon loved big government -- two of the federal programs most despised -- the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon signed the Clean Air Act and Title which guaranteed equal educational opportunities for women. Nixon increased Social Security Benefits, proposed making more people eligible for welfare, and offered a plan for universal health care. Nixon's Detente sought to scale back or arms race with the Soviets. Nixon was quite liberal by current standards.
If you read the article carefully, you'll see clues to why this developer can make it work in spite of conventional wisdom:

1. He picks his buildings carefully. His projects are "market rate", so he has to work out the conversion cost, inventory yield, and rental rates to find good candidates.

2. He includes rooms without windows and labels them as storage, work-from-home offices, or something else that does not need a window to be legal. But (wink-wink) he fully expects that these will be counted as bedrooms by potential renters.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. Certain games on the Wii U even had a "tablet only" mode with a Switch-like experience, although the gamepad couldn't be more than a few yards from the console before losing signal, so it was only useful if someone else wanted to use the TV while you played a game. (You couldn't leave the house or really even the room.)

In the end I'm just glad the Wii U's failure didn't put Nintendo off tablet-style hardware altogether. Turns out that the console market and portable market merged quite nicely :)
I read the point as WebComponents will last longer because "a standard" while React is "a Facebook standard".
hard disagree that Seattle is not an extremely liberal administration
It represents the same position of mediocre acceptance that many espresso affectionadors will arrrive at after spending many months/years mucking about with expensive kit.

It’s the natural progression of most hobbies
the main reason the masses don't have privacy and security-centred systems is that they don't demand them and they will trade it away for a twopence or for the slightest increment in convenience

a maxim that seems to hold true at every level of computing is that users will not care about security unless forced into caring

with privacy they may care more, but they are easily conditioned to assume it's there or that nothing can be realistically be done about losing it
I think it would be simpler to compare cost/transistor.
I wonder what it is after accounting for self reporting bias.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing! This literally made my day. Triggered all sorts of happy dork in me. I had no idea this kind of construction was anything but pure sci-fi.
This is correct the last I read about it, but there was a project called ArcWelder that would post-process your gcode and convert the motions to true arcs. The printers today support the arc gcode, but the slicers don't generate them.

https://github.com/FormerLurker/ArcWelderLib
> Why is the software engineering interview wildly different from the traditional engineering interview

One angle is that SWE is one of the very few professions where you don't need a formal degree to have a career. It's also a common hobby among a sizable population.

I think this is truly great. A holdout breathing hole where people can have lucrative careers without convincing and paying off a ton of gatekeepers!

But I also think that when you hire in other industries, you can get much more milage from looking at the candidate's formal degrees and certifications.

In our industry, you kinda have to start from scratch with every person.
That isn't quite true, but close. Most cities before about 1950 developed just like NYC. However NYC had subways that were not torn out unlike most cities with streetcars that got ripped out. That difference meant that NYC stayed dense in the core, while other cities were forced to become less dense in the core because the residential options didn't work.
One thing I learned in life is to try to not be miserable by being too pedantic. The world isn't perfect. While striving for one's own perception is honorable, thriving for perfection in their purchase decisions is futile.

Do you REALLY need 120Hz? How much do you scroll for it to be relevant enough?

Also you had plenty of time to buy the 11" iPad Pro with M1 and M2 chips, all come with a not-well-saturated LCD screen.
The Perils of Moneyballing Everything
The resume that stands out in my mind was the famous Candy Bar Resume. It wouldn't work in the tech field but (I thought it was) brilliant in the marketing/business field:

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100482311

Direct link to image:

https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/20...
yup - im honestly tired of the Apple ~~~jail~~~ ecosystem.

I love the lower power usage/high efficiency of ARM chips but the locked down ecosystem is a drag.

Just the other day, I was trying to get gpu acceleration to work within a vm on my m1 mac. I think it’s working? But compared to native it’s slow.

I think it’s just a misconfig, somewhere (ie, hypervisor or qemu or UTM or maybe the emulation service in vm).

On other systems (intel/amd + nvidia/radeon) this is more or less a “pass through” but on mac it’s a different beast.
It's a pragmatic one. It has no false negatives, and there's rarely a reason to care about false positives. (Especially not where a stricter regex would (be the only mechanism to) catch it, but a fake-but-valid address wouldn't trivially bypass it.)
The point of building codes and code inspection is so that people don't put others in danger. And in the places that there is a shortage of housing, it is hardly fire code that is limiting supply. It's not as if we could leave out sprinklers and fire escapes from buildings, and all of a sudden, housing would be cheap. The limiting factors of building housing are not this.